APPENDIX VIII

Explaining the method of calculating the receipts from labour.

The average rate of wages taken into consideration, which
entering the receipts from labour in the case of the schedules of
those families who derived income from this spurce, are assumed to
be 5 annas for a man and 4 annas for a woman.

It is, however, easy to understand that the available period of
employment will vary, in the case of peasant-proprietors who
derive income from labour, with the unit of land they cultivate
and the nature of crops they grow. This point formed one of the
principal difficulties in our way of calculating net income from
labour for these families. After consulting several peasant-
proprietors, who combined labour with agriculture, and several
other intelligent big fanners who employ such labour, and taking
all other things into consideration, we constructed the following
table for calculating annual income by way of wages received by
such peasant-proprietors:

Unit of area cultivated and the crops grown.
nature of
Employment.

On land in months.
otherwise in months.

0) is
acres with
sugarcane
8
1

(2) »
99 99
other crops
5
2

(8) 10-15
99 99
sugarcane
7
2

(*) „
99 99
other crops
4
3

(5) 5-10
99 99
sugarcane
5
2

<«) »
19 99
other crops
S
4

(7) 3- 5
99 99
sugarcane
5
3

(8) »
99 99
other crops
2
5

(9) below S
99 99
99
1
6

These figures, though approximate, are not far from the truth.
We may however mention that the periods of available employ-
ment assumed above are, if anything, a little longer than those
for which the peasant-proprietors usually get work. We may note
that in the case of those who cultivate sugarcane, the period
available for carting-which type of labour they usually do-is